Magda Wiegand-Dehn

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Magda Juliane Wilhelmine Wiegand-Dehn (born October 4, 1867 in Schleswig , † July 9, 1938 in Lübeck ) was a German textile artist and wife of the theologian August Wiegand .

Life

Magda Dehn is the daughter of a painter from Schleswig. She attended the secondary school for girls in her hometown. After her father's death, she first worked in her mother's tapestry shop . Because of her talent for drawing, Magda Dehn attended the Hamburg vocational school for girls founded in 1867 under the direction and special support of Mrs. Emma Rée. With a scholarship from the city of Schleswig, she was able to study graphics and textile art at the Berlin School of Applied Arts in 1896 and then in Munich . In Munich she maintained contact with Franz von Lenbach and Franz von Stuck .

As early as 1893, Magda Dehn published essays on handicrafts and textile art, including in the magazine MARTHA, which she co-founded and occasionally directed - a weekly magazine for housewives, daughters and female employees of the house (publisher Ernst Evers ). A book manuscript compiled from these articles “Martha's Diligence” remained unprinted. She received a bronze medal at an arts and crafts exhibition in Lüneburg .

Since 1899 Magda Dehn has designed wallpaper samples for several related companies, including the " Tapetenfabrik Wilh. Boller ”in Braunschweig, the“ Anhalter Tapetenfabrik Ernst Schütz ”in Dessau ,“ Zuber & Co. ”in Rixheim / Alsace and“ Penseler & Sohn ”in Lüneburg. Wallpaper samples donated from the family estate have been in the German Wallpaper Museum in Kassel since 1973 .

Her artistic and professional career initially ended when she married the widowed pastor August Wiegand in 1900 and took on the role of mother for her husband's four children. The couple, who have been working in Plau am See since 1902, had further children in 1902 and 1904. As a housewife and mother, Magda Wiegand-Dehn began to turn to Protestant Paramentics from around 1907 . The artistic paraments that she designed and made herself are simple and understandable in their Christian symbolism, combined with floral elements (including lilies, roses, bleeding hearts , passion flowers). The motifs are largely influenced by Art Nouveau . This was in contrast to conventional paraments, such as those made in the Bethlehem Ludwigslust Abbey .

A turning point in her work as a textile artist was the "Paramententag" in 1924 in the Marienberg monastery in Helmstedt . For the first time, her designs were rejected because they were felt to be out of fashion. The number of orders decreased.

When her husband, Pastor August Wiegand, was transferred to Kirchnüchel near Malente in 1935 because of pro-Jewish sermons , she followed him there. She died three years later in Lübeck.

Artistic work of paramentics

literature

  • Schmaltz: Style questions in the Paramentik (lecture on the Paramententag in Ludwigslust on May 19, 1914). In: Mecklenburgisches Kirchen- und Zeitblatt, August 1, 1914
  • Klopfer: From the more recent Paramentik. In: The village church, 1914
  • Monthly Worship and Christian Art, 1916
  • Bergmann: New work in paramentics. In: The village church, 1928
  • New ways of paramentics. In: Christian art paper for church, school and home
  • A word about vestments. The paraments of the Marienkirche Pasewalk, Schwerin, undated (1911)
  • Our new parament. In: Gemeindeblatt des Schelfwerder, Schwerin June 1, 1929

Unprinted sources

  • Archive and chronicle of the Protestant parish Plau am See
  • Bernd Ruchhöft: From ALBAN to ZIPPE. Famous and notable personalities from the history of the city of Plau.
  • Wiegand-Weis-Gericke family estate
personal data
SURNAME Wiegand-Dehn, Magda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiegand-Dehn, Magda Juliane Wilhelmine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile artist and wife of the theologian August Wiegand
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1938
Place of death Lübeck